Good IT management is essential to achieving value from IT systems and managing the risks associated with them. IT management covers the full lifecycle of systems, from the initial decision to invest in a system through its operational life until it is no longer needed and ultimately decommissioned.
The IT faculty has a wide range of materials on IT governance, audit and controls, compliance issues related to IT and management issues such as IT outsourcing and service management.
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22 May 2012
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Business technology was born in the finance function - and accountants make more use of it than most. So why hasn't IT completely revolutionised the role of finance?
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23 May 2012
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Open data initiatives have released huge databases into the wild. But it’s not just governments that generate so-called ‘big data. Even SMEs now automatically collect thousands of megabytes on customers, suppliers, markets and processes. Making good use of it is another question.
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23 May 2012
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Breezily ticking the terms and conditions on software licence agreements can open your business up to software audits.
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04 Apr 2012
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Now might not be the time to start recruiting new IT staff.
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04 Apr 2012
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MPs queried the use of Real Time Information (RTI) systems for SMEs in a report published in December. The Public Accounts Committee expressed concerns that SMEs and the self-employed would struggle to use RTI effectively.
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08 Feb 2012
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Wrestling with a tricky IT implementation? Maybe Jeremy Boss, IT head for the Audit Commission, has the answer. He also sits on the Cabinet Office CIO Council – so he’s used to the toughest, most high profile IT projects.
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08 Feb 2012
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There’s a new trend in business computing: bring your own device to work (BYOD). It’s altering organisations’ technology culture and forcing IT departments to go from being bouncers to butlers.
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08 Feb 2012
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Since the start of its economic reforms in 1979, China has seen a phenomenal rate of economic growth; aided by its accession to the World Trade Organisation, its real GDP growth has increased an average 10% per year.
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28 Nov 2011
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IT outsourcing continues to be an area of great interest for businesses, as they look to cut costs and deliver high quality IT services.
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08 Nov 2010
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Analyst Quocirca has taken a look at cloud computing from a novel angle, starting from business processes and then analysing how cloud computing can play a role.
The premise is that starting any IT related analysis from the technology itself can leave business people in the dark regarding the true value of a new technical architecture, while starting from process avoids that problem.
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09 Nov 2010
A brief discussion of IT matters covered as part of a QAD practise assurance visit
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16 Nov 2010
After ten years are organisations are totally compliant with the regime?
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19 Nov 2010
Future relationships are likely to have been affected in a major way by the judgement handed down in February in the long running BSkyB versus EDS court case.
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30 Mar 2010
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The British Library has launched a new UK archive for websites. The idea is to keep sites that could otherwise disappear accessible for future generations.
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13 Dec 2010
The growing trend towards major outsourcing deals, could mean significant restructuring of IT related business budgets as well as major changes to the skills mix needed by corporate IT departments.
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23 Feb 2010
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The European Commission has proposed a refresh of EU privacy rules
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30 Sep 2009
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Network operator Orange says UK businesses could save up to £31.7 billion by supporting flexible working
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06 Dec 2010
Cloud computing has led to a major resugence of fear, uncertainty and doubt
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14 Dec 2010
Sandra Vogel outlines the concept of Cloud computing
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